When "Everything" Becomes Too Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024 - Socket
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An NPM user named PatrickJS launched a troll campaign with a package called "everything," which depends on all public npm packages.
  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    It’s the cascading nature of the dependencies. You could install a single package that might directly or indirectly depend on 100’s of other packages, which can introduce bugs into existing code bases which can be difficult to fix as you have no control over another library or dependency.